Lady’s Boogie
See that lady
Dressed so fine?
She ain’t got boogie-woogie
On her mind—
But if she was to listen
I bet she’d hear,
Way up in the treble
The tingle of a tear.
Be-Bach!
Langston Hughes, "Lady’s Boogie" from The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. Copyright © 2002 by Langston Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates, Inc.
